UW in the News

October 21, 2013 — State, national and international media frequently feature
the University of Wyoming and members of its community in stories. Here is a
summary of some of the recent articles where UW is making the news.

UW economist Anne Alexander is quoted in a Wyoming
Business Report article about the reopening of Wyoming’s national parks
after the federal government shutdown.

Fossil collections in UW’s Geological Museum are cited in a Washington
Post article about a significant dinosaur discovery.

The Laramie
Boomerang and SheridanMedia.com
were among numerous media outlets that reported on UW receiving a $1.2 million
NSF Robert Noyce Award to certify 70 new science and mathematics teachers in
the state during the next five years.

SheridanMedia.com
also carried UW news releases about a primer on market-based mitigation
requirements on projects that could affect wildlife habitat, and on a local
agency honored by the School of Nursing.

UW research into contraception to control coyotes without
killing them is still in the news. Wyoming
Public Media interviewed graduate student Marjorie MacGregor, the project’s
lead researcher.

Wyoming
Business Report reported that a Whole Foods store in Fort Collins, Colo.,
will be the first major grocery retailer to feature Bright AgroTech’s ZipGrow
Towers, which are vertical plastic tubes used to grow herbs and salad greens
hydroponically. Bright AgroTech is a UW business incubator client.

The Casper
Star-Tribune reported on the new Wyoming Business Hall of Fame,
which will be housed at UW’s College of Business Building.

Hispanic
Business noted that UW Chicano Studies Director Cecelia Aragon and her
students led workshops at last weekend’s Wyoming Latina Youth Conference in
Cheyenne.

China Glass
Network picked up UW’s release noting that the university’s recycling
program will no longer accept glass beginning this month.

Bill Mai, senior economic adviser to Gov. Matt Mead, has
been selected as UW’s vice president for administration, according to KGWN
TV in Cheyenne.

A grant to study the role of Wyoming’s beekeepers in western
and national markets by UW agricultural Economist Mariah Ehmke was reported in The Star Valley Independent.

Ag
Weekly and KTAK
Radio in Riverton interviewed Camby Reynolds, UW Powell Research and
Extension Center farm manager, who said recent snow storms have hampered
harvesting efforts this fall across the state.